Search Results: proust the early years by george d painter

Boston: Atlantic Little Brown, 1959. Light soiling around page edges. Dust jacket lightly frayed around the edges.. 4th Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Chipped.

Little Brown & Co., 1959. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

UsedGood. CLEAN TEXT

1959 hardcover stated 1st edition. Edgewear, chipping, and soil/tanning on dj, sunning on cover, front corners a little bumped, light tanning, else text clean, binding tight .

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1959). Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), xvii, 435 pp. Very Good, with slight sunning to edges; in a Very Good dust jacket with light edgewear. From dust jacket: “..Mr. Painter has identified all the places, people and facts, the encounters, friendships and loves in Marcel Proust’s life that went into the making of his great book and into his earlier novel, Jean Santeuil. He has succeeded in relating the man and his work as no other biographer has before him -- the man and his work and his society, for Mr. Painter’s book is both a critique of Proust and a social history of his time. This masterpiece of research is therefore a biography with all the excitement of a detective novel. We read of Proust’s split background, half Jewish, half Catholic, in the upper bourgeoisie; of his tender, complicated relationship with his mother; of his schoolboy essays, his early symptoms of asthma, the scenes in the salons where he is “cultivated.” Mr. Painter… Read More

Boston: Little Brown, 1959. hardcover. very good/very good(-). Illustrated, maps drawn by Samuel H. Bryant. xvii + 435 pages, 8vo, grey cloth, d.w.; dust wrapper price clipped, chipped at spine ends. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1959. Very good copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper.<br/> <br/>

Boston: Little Brown, 1959. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Good hardcover. Pages clean. Corners bent. Spine bleached. Top outer foredges of pages light brown. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1959. 3d Printing. [xxii] 435p., b/w illus., slight paper foxing on the top-edge, dj (An Atlantic Monthly Press book).

Boston: Little, Brown, 1959. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Second edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear and just a little fading. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Boston: Little Brown & Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. No DJ. .

Boston: Little Brown & Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. No DJ. .

Atlantic, Little, Brown. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1959. Hardcover. Dust jackets missing. Foxing to exterior edges of pages. No writing or major blemishes. Displays beautifully. Personal plate on front endpaper. .

Boston: Little, Brown. 1959. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Owner name to front pastedown. A few chips and tears to jacket. Stated First Edition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .